Since the debut of the program in May 1991, the Backroads crew has produced 29 half-hour episodes that air regularly on Montana PBS. The series has traveled across the state and visited its unique people and places.
The Backroads crew takes us along on visits to the Accordion Festival in Philipsburg, the Ross Cedars in Northwest Montana, a bucking bronco school in Arlee and historic Mann Gulch near Helena. And we get to know a grain elevator photographer in Bozeman.
Airs Saturday 5/31 at 5:30pm
Backroads of Montana - Program Updates Episode Twelve “Music and Memories” (1999) – The Rocky Mountain Accordion Festival in Philipsburg is still going strong. The event is usually held in late July or early August. Accordion aficionado Tom Collins died in 2004. He was 82. Don Coburn died in August, 2007, at age 80. As a member of the Montana National Guard in 1949, Coburn took fathers of the victims of the Mann Gulch tragedy to see the site of their sons’ deaths. He was never able to return to the site afterwards.
The Backroads crew takes us along on visits to the Accordion Festival in Philipsburg, the Ross Cedars in Northwest Montana, a bucking bronco school in Arlee and historic Mann Gulch near Helena. And we get to know a grain elevator photographer in Bozeman.
